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These Anti-Vaxxers Are Funding ‘Ready for Hillary’
Albert and Claire Dwoskin are liberal Democratic heavyweights and important Hillary donors, but now their vaccination skepticism is bringing them unwanted notice.
Jackie Kucinich - DailyBeast
02.04.15

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Albert Dwoskin and his wife, Claire, have been heavy hitters in Democratic politics for decades, boasting fundraisers with access to top Democratic leaders—even the Clintons.

Bill Clinton has spoken at their mansion in McLean, Virginia twice.

Albert, a real estate developer, donated more than $10,000 to Ready for Hillary—Clinton’s campaign in waiting—in 2013. That’s on top of the thousands of dollars both Clintons have received from the pair since the 1990s.

But it’s Albert and Claire Dwoskin’s other hobby that is under scrutiny now. The Dwoskins fund a multimillion-dollar family foundation that has publicly tied the use of vaccines to a rise in autism, and is dedicated to addressing “gaps in the knowledge about the biological and genetic risk factors for vaccine induced brain and immune dysfunction.”

In other words, they’re vaccination skeptics. And the foundation is just one in a series of anti-vaxx projects that the wealthy couple bankrolls.

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